We Agreed You’d Just Play the Divine Son, So How Did You Become the Forbidden Zone Emperor?

Chapter 55. Chu Mengyao’s Arrival, the True Dragon Essence Blood Disappears!

In the past, it was not unheard of for supreme prodigies to be unable to withstand the terrifying divine might of the Dragon Transformation Pool.

After all, it contained true dragon essence blood. Not everyone could adapt to it.

If one could not adapt, then the problem lay within oneself. It meant that one regrettably could not undergo the cleansing of the Dragon Transformation Pool.

The two old monsters had seen this many times before.

Therefore, they directly advised Chu Mengyao to withdraw.

After hearing this, Chu Mengyao looked confused. She immediately said,

“Seniors, it is not that I cannot withstand the tempering of the Dragon Transformation Pool. Rather, this Dragon Transformation Pool… is no different from an ordinary spirit pool!”

“This junior cannot feel any tempering effect while cultivating inside it!”

Chu Mengyao spoke truthfully.

After cultivating for a short while, she had not obtained the body-tempering effect she had expected.

“Hm?”

Upon hearing Chu Mengyao’s words, a puzzled voice came from the alternate dimension.

“What did you say?”

“How could that be possible!”

The two old monsters spoke one after another, both unwilling to believe it.

Chu Mengyao shook her head and said seriously,

“Every word this junior speaks is true. This does not resemble the Dragon Transformation Pool at all! Or perhaps… this is some sort of test for me?”

Silence followed.

The two old monsters froze.

Then the calm voice spoke again.

“Wait a moment.”

BOOM!!

In the next instant—

The void was torn open by terrifying and boundless magical power, forming a crack in space.

From within that crack, two withered, aged hands stretched out, tearing the rift wider and wider!

Then—

A gaunt old man leapt out.

His entire body was shriveled, his face covered with dark spots, and his aura carried the decay of death, as if he were a corpse.

Chu Mengyao’s heart trembled upon seeing him.

As a member of the imperial clan, she knew that some old monsters nearing the end of their lifespans would resort to various special methods to prolong their lives.

The old monster before her was clearly one whose lifespan was about to end and had used some special method to extend it.

The shriveled old man stepped out, his eyes indifferent and numb.

Although his aura was decaying—

The faint aura leaking from his body seemed capable of suppressing Heaven and Earth.

He was a peerless powerhouse with unfathomable cultivation.

In less than a ten-thousandth of a moment, the shriveled old man arrived beside the Dragon Transformation Pool.

“Not like the Dragon Transformation Pool? How could that be? This old man has guarded this place for a thousand years, and never—”

His voice was calm as he muttered.

But before he could finish speaking, his words abruptly stopped.

Shock filled his face.

“What?!”

“How could this happen? The aura of the true dragon essence blood… has disappeared!”

The shriveled old man’s expression changed drastically.

True dragon essence blood was incomparably precious.

Across the entire Eastern Wasteland, even the legendary Saint Realm experts would covet it and attempt to seize it.

True dragons were supreme beings capable of battling immortals. Even a single drop of their essence blood was priceless—enough to shake the entire Eastern Wasteland.

After the Great Chu Dynasty obtained that drop of essence blood, it treated it as a national treasure.

Thus, one of Great Chu’s ancestors—an unparalleled master of array formations—had engraved sealing formations to ensure that the true dragon essence blood would remain suppressed forever and could never be taken.

If someone wanted to take it, they would first have to break the formation.

And before that could even happen, the entire Great Chu Dynasty would be alerted.

Even Saint Realm experts could not steal this drop of true dragon essence blood.

Furthermore, the sealing formation was also an invincible killing array.

Breaking it was no easy task.

With all these safeguards, for tens of thousands of years the true dragon essence blood had remained completely safe.

No one had even dared to consider stealing it.

And yet now—

That drop of true dragon essence blood, which had been suppressed for tens of thousands of years, had disappeared!

This was a terrifying, earth-shaking piece of news.

If it spread, the Great Chu Dynasty would be thrown into complete upheaval!

“How could this happen? How could this happen?!”

Even the shriveled old monster’s expression changed drastically.

At that moment—

Another pair of skeletal hands extended from the torn void.

In the next instant, a streak of white light shot beside the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Chu Mengyao was startled.

Looking closely, she realized that the newcomer was hardly even human.

His limbs were completely skeletal, the white bones exposed and clearly visible.

Only his face still retained a slight semblance of humanity, though it was aged to the extreme.

His figure flickered faintly, as if a gust of wind could scatter his body.

Chu Mengyao knew that this was one of the Great Chu Dynasty’s hidden foundations—a terrifying existence.

“The aura of the true dragon essence blood… is gone. How could this happen!”

The skeletal old man stared at the scene in disbelief.

“True dragon essence blood… this is a national treasure, yet now it has vanished without a trace. Who did this?!”

The two old monsters immediately stepped into the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Their terrifying divine senses swept through everything, examining the pool thoroughly from top to bottom.

“Could it be… that Chu Feng took the true dragon essence blood?” the shriveled old man suddenly said in a low voice.

The skeletal old man’s gaze turned cold.

He glanced toward the bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool before slowly speaking.

“No. The formation suppressing the true dragon essence blood is still intact. It has not been affected in the slightest.”

“Even if that Chu Feng is a monstrous genius, he is not some peerless powerhouse or grandmaster of arrays. It would be impossible for him to take the true dragon essence blood without breaking the formation!”

Hearing this, the shriveled old man looked extremely anxious.

He also found it hard to believe that Chu Feng had done it.

After all, the formation that sealed the true dragon essence blood had been engraved by that array master of the past—

At his peak, he had been a Saint Realm expert.

And when he created the formation, he had been in his absolute prime.

His strength had been so terrifying that it was beyond imagination.

Chu Feng was a monster and possibly possessed a Saint Physique. Perhaps he was the future hope of the Great Chu Dynasty.

But he had not yet grown to that level.

How could he possibly break the methods of a Saint Realm expert?

The two old monsters looked at each other.

Their auras suddenly grew terrifying.

“This matter must be reported to the Ancestral Land immediately!”

The Ancestral Land was the sacred ancestral ground of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Anyone who could enter it was an old monster from several generations ago.

They all shared one thing in common—their lifespans were nearly exhausted. Thus they entered the Ancestral Land and used various methods to prolong their lives.

On one hand, they could live a little longer and see whether the future might change.

On the other hand, as long as these old monsters remained alive, they were the foundation of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Standing within the Eastern Wasteland, the Great Chu Dynasty relied upon these foundations.

They could not die easily.

“Let’s go!”

After leaving these words behind, the two old monsters vanished instantly as if they had never existed.

The torn space also closed again.

Inside the Dragon Transformation Pool residence, only Chu Mengyao remained, standing there in complete shock.

What was going on?

She had come here to undergo the tempering of the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Yet now she was being told that the true dragon essence blood had disappeared?!

If the true dragon essence blood was gone, what tempering was there left?

Chu Mengyao felt as though the sky had collapsed.

No matter what, obtaining third place in the Heavenly Hunt Ceremony had not been easy.

And the three days of cultivation in the Dragon Transformation Pool she had earned—

Had they really been wasted just like that?

Meanwhile—

Chu Feng had no idea that fusing with the true dragon essence blood had caused such a massive upheaval.

At this moment, he had already arrived outside Jinxuan Palace.